Woah!! Whatsapp chats aren't permanently removed!!!

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If you're a whatsapp user with an iPhone, your chats might not be secure as you think...

Whatsapp chat logs remains on your phone even after you've deleted them, according to a new research published by iOS expert Jonathan Zdziarski.

"I installed the app and started a few different threads" Zdziarski wrote in a blog post. "I then archived some, cleared, some, and deleted some, cleared, some, and deleted some threads. I made a second backup after running the Clear all chats function in Whatsapp. None of these deletion or archival options made any difference in how deleted records were preserved. In all cases, the deleted records were preserved. In all cases, the deleted SQLite records remained intact in the database."

It looks like that only way to get rid of them entirely is to remove the app from the phone...

Even after all this fuss whatsapp did not respond to a request for comment...

However, Whatsapp certainly isn't the only messaging application with this problem:Zdziarski noted that the issue exists with iMessage as well.

If you want to secure your chats and messages even more, you can always disable iCloud and desktop backups, and then uninstall Whatsapp every few weeks. It's quite a tedious task, but it's the best way to ensure that the app's database and your messages are being deleted for good...


Stay tuned to this page for more news and updates:GizmoSpy

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